One major conflict that takes place within the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the love triangle between Daisy Buchanan, James Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Daisy is Tom Buchanan’s wife, who was James Gatsby’s long lost love. Before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including James Gatsby. Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby fell in love in Louisville and she promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Tom Buchanan has an affair with a woman by the name of Myrtle whom is already married to the owner of a run-down garage in the Valley of Ashes, George Wilson. Myrtle possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for Myrtle, Tom mistreats her and views her as an object of his desire. Meanwhile, as she is treated as a mere object, Daisy is being showered by love and care from the “great” James Gatsby. Gatsby’s only obligation is to have Daisy fall back in love with him. Days go by, and Daisy visits Gatsby at his mansion. She stays majority of the week, which leads to Gatsby having to fire his workers to prevent rumors from forming. After weeks, Daisy begins to come back to her senses and falls in love. Gatsby hands her a ring, which she cannot wear because of her husband, Tom. Therefore, Gatsby decides to confront Tom about Daisy’s and his affair, as they take a stroll in New York. Upon the end of the confrontation in New York, Daisy becomes indecisive and denies everything Gatsby stated. On their way home, they pass by the run-down garage owned by Myrtle’s husband, inside Tom Buchanan’s car. Myrtle was not aware that Tom was not driving the care, so she ran outside thinking it was him, and Daisy accidentally ran her over. Myrtle did not survive the fatal hit, and George Wilson was devastated. After a while, Tom Buchanan, Nick...

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Kara Little
Mrs. Belier
American Literature 2: Period 3
9 January 2013
The Great GatsbyEssay
Women, for several years, have been trying to reach the same equality and superiority as men have today. In the novel, the author shows many points on why he believes women are inferior to men. In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway moves to New York to learn about the bond business. Nick is very unique compared to everyone who lives in the West Egg. Like his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Throughout the novel, Gatsby tries to win back the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan, who is married to a man named Tom. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows that women are inferior to men by showing that men are abusive to women, men use women for show/looks, and women are treated unfairly in the workplace.
Many women that are in a relationship or married often are abused by men. In this quote, Tom slaps Myrtle because he was angry at her, “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald 37). This shows how abusive men can be in relationships. Some men think it is okay to beat women because they are inferior to them. Tom brings out his abusive side when he gets annoyed with Myrtle. Domestic violence is also found in many relationships today. A woman was found dead after her husband had beaten her to death, “Her body was found...

...novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald uses a green light to create symbolism and foreshadow the theme of the novel: the American dream. The green light is located directly across Gatsby’s dock and originates from the home of Daisy Buchanan. The scene in which Nick Carraway first encounters Gatsby, where Gatsby is standing at the end of his dock and reaching towards the mysterious green light plays a major role in the development of the entire novel. The green light is a major symbol used by Fitzgerald at the beginning and end of the novel. However, the green light is an ambivalent symbol. It represents both the good and the bad of the American dream. This event is also used to foreshadow what is to be expected in the novel. Without this scene, the powerful symbolism provided and the direction of the novel would be lost. The green light represents Gatsby’s journey towards the American dream.
The colour green is an ambivalent symbol for life and money. Green is associated with nature and plants, which without it, there would be no life on earth. In the case of the novel, the green light represents Daisy and the hope of keeping the American dream alive for Gatsby. The American dream is achieved by gaining wealth and love. Coincidentally, money is also associated with the colour green. Money is a major theme in The Great Gatsby because it...

...﻿Obtaining the Unattainable
As Azar Nafisi once said, “The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.” The protagonist of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby spent his lifetime following the American Dream in the hopes of winning his one true love and this led to his untimely downfall. Over the years, Aristotle’s definition of tragedy has been modified b every great writer in their generation and Fitzgerald is no different. Fitzgerald’s difference of tragedy with Aristotle is that the tragic hero is not of noble status and greatness. Gatsby is not of royal greatness but fulfills all the other criteria of a tragic hero. Like everything else, the typical tragic hero has evolved greatly since its beginning days and Fitzgerald has made a large contribution to its evolution with his tragedy, The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is considered a modern day tragic hero because he fulfills all of the expectations a tragic hero in today’s day and age has.
The first expectation that Gatsby fulfills to be a modern day tragic hero is that he has a Hamartia. His Hamartia is his obsession over having Daisy to himself.He considers her as the last thing in life that he needs in order to have perfection. She is the only unrealistic dream that he chases and in the end, dies because of her, which is symbolic of her devastating impact on his life....

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Gatsby vs. the American society in 1920s
From Nick’s perspective, Gatsby might have made vast fortune by illegal means and is capable of behaving like an aristocrat, he is still not respected as the ‘old money’ from East Egg; Gatsby’s mansion, his shimmering parties, fancy clothes and cars, cannot erase his past as a low-born farmer’s son after all. He dreams to be recognized as one of the upper-class people, but is frequently looked down by people like Tom Buchanan and the Sloanes who was born noble and is accustomed to live a luxurious life. Gatsby’s struggle to be among a higher social class is conflict with what he really is; therefore he cannot be seen and treated equally. His tragedy is an evidence of himself being an victim of the society he lived in, where social classes were considered more valuable than one’s inner spirit and materialism was concerned way more than humanity.
2. Characters vs. character
Gatsby vs. Tom
First of all, Gatsby represents the new money and Tom represents the old money. While Gatsby acquired his money by doing illegal businesses, Tom only inherited his money without putting efforts. Nevertheless, Tom still feel privileged over Gatsby due to his favorable family background. This is the first conflict.
Second, Gatsby and Tom compete with each other for winning Daisy’s love....

...The main, reoccurring theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is the theme of society and class. Three separate social classes are portrayed in the novel: “old money,” “new money,” and the lowest class known as “no money.” The “old money” class refers to those who come from families that have fortunes. “New money” families are those who made their money in the Roaring Twenties and often lavishly display their wealth. In the novel, the growing tension between the “old” and the “new” money classes are shown through Gatsby and Tom’s struggle over Daisy. The novel’s narrator, Nick Carraway, begins the novel by sharing advice his father gave him when he was younger: do not criticize others because “all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that [he has] had” (1). Nick’s father informs his son that his advantage over most people in the world is that he comes the “old money” class. Unlike the people around him, Nick casts himself as a nonjudgmental character with regard to social class, which is opposed to others during this time period. In this period, the Roaring Twenties, members of “new money” enjoyed the pleasures of easy money, ample drinking, and sumptuous parties; and while his fellows pranced from party to party every night, he would not become involved in their inane manners. Nick “lived at West Egg – well, the less fashionable of the two” (5) which is located directly across the bay from East Egg. Throughout the...

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In F Scott Fitzgerald’s important, tragic American novel, “The Great Gatsby” the conflict and confrontation between Tom Buchannan and Jay Gatsby is central to the novel’s power in the way in which is exposes the falseness of the American Dream. Fitzgerald uses the confrontation and contrast between these two characters to explore this theme and does so through his effective use of characterisation, symbolism and key moments of tension.
Firstly, we can see the way in which Fitzgerald uses the characterisation of Gatsby to establish the contrasts existing between hi m and Tom which will lead to their eventual confrontation. When Gatsby is first introduced he is alone and seems lonely:
“He stretched his arms toward the dark water in a curious way…Involuntarily, I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.”
This introduction to Gatsby already indicates his close link with the theme of the Death of the American Dream; Gatsby’s characterisation is a constant reminder of the falseness of the American Dream and how it cannot be achieved. Gatsby’s idealism and unrealistic dream of Daisy is revealed to be a fantasy and doomed to failure. We sense this in the tone of this...

...﻿Gabbie DeVecco
Mrs. Skow
Honors English 11
22 December 2014
The Great Gatsby Compare and Contrast Essay
In the novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald creates many settings and describes places in order for them to have their own feel and be original. Two specific places in the novel that give you a sense of the time and of society are West and East egg. They both are dense of people with money and grand mansions, but they have their differences as well. The differences are mainly shown through the characters that live there. Jay Gatsby who lives in West Egg and Tom and Daisy Buchanan that live in East Egg. There is much to compare and contrast with the two places.
The comparison between West Egg and East Egg is mainly on the fact that both settings are filled with the upper class. West Egg is made up of fashionable mansions decorated to look sophisticated and proper. East Egg is made up of mansions as well, but is not as pleasing to the eye. Both places share a sort of river in the middle. This river comes up as a strong symbol in the novel as a block or barrier between Daisy and Gatsby.
There are many things to contrast with West and East Egg. The morals, values, and symbolism of the people are some important differences. West Egg symbolizes a new generation of people that received their money through their family. While East Egg symbolizes a new generation also, but with people that earned...

...The Great Gatsby Comparison Essay
The classic book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was written in 1925 and was created into a movie in 1974. The movie was directed by Jack Clayton and was written by Francis Ford Cappola. The movie, The Great Gatsby, starred Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, and Bruce Dern. The makers of the movie were very precise in keeping the content of the movie the same as the book. The GreatGatsby movie and novel are very similar although they have slight differences involving the details of Gatsby and Daisy’s love, which does not change the theme.
The 1974 movie followed the contents of the book very well. All of the characters were portrayed in the movie just as they were in the book. Daisy was a beautiful, outgoing woman in search of excitement. Tom was loud, selfish, and boisterous while Nick was humble and kind. Gatsby was played perfectly as a mysterious, charming man. All of the aspects of the plot in the movie were on par with the book. Nick moves to west egg and meets Gatsby at one of his parties. Nick then helps Gatsby get together with Daisy and attitudes between the characters become tense. Daisy later runs Myrtle over and Gatsby is killed for it. The “Roaring 20s” was filled with dancing, style, and music. In both the movie and the book, Gatsby used his huge parties filled with...